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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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MS SQL SERVER 2017/2019 Replication target/source support

Now is mid of 2019, but the latest MS SQL Server support is version 2016. Customer is upgrading their MS SQL Server to 2017 and above. And found the Queue Replication does not support the new 2017 server. Failed to create control table.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration

dataModules Expression variables API

we´re digging into dataModule usage and we´ve found some samples wich, inside dataModule, uses some advanced expressions to define month to date (MTD) calculations over dates. We´d like to find full support about the posibilites of this expression...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Delay Statistics: add read cache hit and split lock/latch delays

Make it easier to track lock vs latch delays at statement level. Identify applications that could benefit from zhyperlink enablement.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add commit/rollback counter ( to operational summaries and Interval Selection )

This has been missed for a long time when comparing to our previous stmt monitoring solution. Easy access to tracking of commit/rollback activity.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

new optkey “product id”

Add optkey to collect QWHDPRID info to track activity at the various driver levels
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new optkey ”requester location”

We need an optkey option that will always contain the ip-address for distributed SQL
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add ability to respond to Ratings and Reviews of assets in WKC

Currently, a user can submit a review with a star-rating for assets in the data catalog. Would like the ability to be able to respond to these reviews to provide clarification, correction, etc as is done on many retail web sites for products.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Unload to support parallelism for LOB Tablespaces

We are trying to unload large LOB tablespaces in a performant manner. Please see PMR 76429 999 866 in relation to this. IBM Unload currently issues misleading messages saying parallelism will be invoked. However this is not the case and the utilit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration